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Magnetic: Cage Closed is not a puzzle platformer that will tickle your brain and push your problem-solving capabilities. Extreme repetition, poor controls, and a barely there story makes this game a dull proposition from start to finish.

Magnetic Magnetic energy seems like a compelling premise for any first-person puzzle platformer to be built around. After all, a magnet combined with some iron fillings was about as playful as school ever got. Imagine that kind of power a thousand-fold....

Magnetic: Cage Closed is a competent but completely uninspired physics puzzle game that owes much to its predecessors but never really builds on the concept with ideas of its own. Figuring out how to get the right box on the right buttons to navigate through its magnet-based test chambers can...

Magnetic: Cage Closed takes place in a futuristic prison run by a sadistic warden, who gives the player character a magnetic gun for a chance to escape. The path won't be straight-forward, though, as the prison consists of randomly shifting chambers....

The many unique twists of Magnetic: Cage Closed do so much to set it apart from the other first person physics puzzlers that have tried to dethrone the genre mainstay. Its carefully constructed puzzles, accompanied by clever world building, make it intriguing and sophisticated, but never to the point of pretention.